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Surf Casting & Angling Club of WA (Inc) PO Box 2834 Malaga WA 6944

http://www.surfcasters.iinet.net.au

Club Committee for the Year 2009/2010

President Vice President Immediate Past President George Holman Terry Fuller Greg Walker Treasurer Field Day Officer Assistant Field Day Officer Bev Grigo Mark Hansen Peter Stoeckel Secretary Dry Casting Officer Ass. Dry Casting Officer John Crompton Bob Henderson Allan Jones surfcast@iinet.net.au Property Officer Reel Talk Editor Recorder Vix Alexander Jennie Stoeckel Ian Cook Social Organiser Website Co-ordinator AAA Delegates Michelle Walker Terry Fuller George Holman Terry Fuller Recfishwest Representative Minute Secretary Terry Fuller Terry Fuller

Life Members of the Club:

Jim Strong, Bob Klein, George Holman, Ric Parker, Ian Cook, Bob Henderson

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September 2009 Reel Talk Contents

Committee Members & Life Members 1

Minutes of the General Meeting (AGM) 12th August 2009 2

Meeting & Field Day Information 7

October Rottnest Trip Information 7

Club Clothing 8

A Crabbing Story – by Bob Henderson 9

President‟s Report 10

New Member Acceptances 12

New Member Application 12

August Field Day Report 13

Social Organiser‟s Report 16

Recorder‟s Report 17

August Dry Casting Report 19

August Dry Casting Results 20

August Dry Casting Winners 21

Website Editor‟s Report 22

Recfishwest Report 23

“Happy Birthday!” 24

AAA Report 25

Field Day Venues & 3 month Calendar 26

Recipe for „Baked Fish‟ 27

Sports Safe Tips 28

Surf Casting and Angling Club of W.A. (Inc.)

PO Box 2834

MALAGA WA 6934 Club Web Page: http://www.surfcasters.iinet.net.au

Email: surfcast@iinet.net.au

Minutes of Annual General Meeting 12 August 2009

Venue: Coolbinia West Perth Amateur Football and Sporting Club Rooms

Time: 2010 hrs

President Presiding: Greg Walker Members Present: 32 members

Apologies: Terry Fuller, Melvin Wee, Greg Keet and Robert (Bob) Henderson

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Visitors: Joseph Kolman, Mick Goldenberg, Ray Walker, Stefan Wiklund, Charles Faure

and Terry Willison

New Members: None

Previous Minutes:

As published in the August 2009 Reel Talk

Moved: Peter Stoeckel Seconded: Mark Hansen………………….. Carried

Previous Committee Meeting: Held on 15 July 2009

Secretary‟s Report:

Septembers 2009 Dry Casting Date will be on the 13th September, and not the 6th being

Father‟s Day

April 2010 Dry Casting Date in April 2010, will be on the 11th April and not the 4th being

Easter Sunday

Thanks to Marcia Pekaar for assisting me on double checking the Dry Casting Monthly

Dates, required by the Stirling Shire

Correspondence Out:

Get Well Card sent to Jimmy Strong

Congratulations Card sent to Hadley & Tracy, on the Birth of their son Noah

Congratulations Card sent to Lea & Simone on the Birth of their son Ryan Travice

Correspondence In: Water Rates – Kalbarri Rental – 7 July 2009 Printsmart overdue Account Reminder – June 2009 Membership Renewal – Geoff Rafts Single Dept of Environment – Walpole Wilderness and Adjacent Parks and Reserves Management Plan 2008 Dept. of Fisheries – New Recreational Fishing Licenses Membership Fees – Morris Kolman – Family

Membership Fees – Melvin Wee – Family to be paid into Westpac Cheque Account $120

Membership Fees – Geoff Rafts – Single

Membership Fees – Andy Thorgersen Concession

Membership Fees – Malcolm Harris - Family

Membership Fees – Ian Taggart - Single

Membership Fees – P & M Pekaar - Family

Membership Fees – Josh Lucocq – Family

Membership Fees – Vince Iozzi – Family

Membership Fees – Peter Iozzi – Single

Membership Fees – Tino Baiardo – Single

Membership Fees – Trevor Stam - Concession

Membership Fees – Allan Jones – Single

Membership Fees – Theo & Louise Van Niekerk – Family

Membership Fees – Hadley & Tracy Markus

Printsmart Account 23 July 2009

Healthy Club Sponsorship Questionnaire and All Receipts Required

Stirling Shire - Ground Application Summer 2009 – 2010

Stirling Shire – Seasonal Ground Application – summer 2009 / 2010

Kalbarri Booking – Vince and Julie Zammit $50.00 Deposit 4th – 11th October 2009

BT Quarterly Statement – 1 April 2009 to 30 June 2009

BT Annual Statement – 30 June 2009

BT Tax Statement – 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009

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Printsmart Account – 23 July Account 2009 AAA – Delegates Minutes 21 July 2009 AAA – Angler of the Year and Champion Club Presentations 2008 / 2009 Holly Walker – Equal First – Junior Competition Ben Pullella – Equal Second Mini Junior Competition Ray White Statement 31 July Kaz Cleaning Service – Kalbarri Holiday Bookings Details – July 2009 Tax Information leaflet Westpac Statement 30 June to 31 July 2009 Recfishwest Special General Meeting for Constitution Changes Healthy Club Sponsorship Winter 2009 Evaluation Form required to be filled out by The 18th September 2009 West coast Commercial Marine – Salt-X Easy Grants Newsletter - August 2009 Thanks a lot to all the Members who donated to the Cleanup of Jimmy Strong‟s

House.

Terry Fuller, George Holman, David Maxted, John Curtis, Peter & Sharon Osborne, John

Lee, Morris & Elana Holman, Ron & Heather Hicks, Ian Pereira, Josh Lucocq, John

Crompton, Greg Keet, Gary Gildersleeves, Malcolm Head, Peter Stoeckel, Melvin Wee,

Allan Jones, Dean Stewart, and Geoff Rafts.

Peter and Marcia Pekaar has volunteered to replace Carpet in a Room as required.

Joe Pullella from Ranger Camping donated a Personal Jacket to Jimmy, who was

thrilled to bits and proud with his New Jacket.

Emails In/Out:

Iinet Account reminder – Overdue

Club enquiry – Ray Walker

Club enquiry – Stefan Wiklund

Water Corporation - Communications Project Management Branch - Alkimos Water

Alliance, building a Water Treatment Plant

Kalbarri House enquiry for the 16 January 2010 - Matt

Out Visit: None

Treasurer‟s Report: “The Treasurer distributed a copy of the financial report for the 30th

June 2009 to all members present and tabled a copy for acceptance and discussion. The

Treasurer pointed out that there are still some journal entries that need to be made in the

accounts and when they are completed an updated report will be presented to a later

general meeting of the club”.

A great thanks to Sandra Wessels for assisting me on the accounts over the year, she has

been an absolute gem to us.

All monies received from funding grants needs to be updated or left over monies has to be

returned.

I am still waiting for the results of the Title Deeds from the National Bank

Sandra thanked Bev for a wonderful job done it was not easy to sort out.

Assets held by all Members to be updated and handed to Bev Grigo, to be kept as a

future record for all Club Members.

Monies Received: As per Report given out at the AGM

Accounts to be paid: As per Report given out at the AGM

Moved: Jimmy Strong Seconded: Ian Cook ……………. Carried

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Reel Talk Editor: All reports required by the 29 August.

Property Officer: Not a lot to report tonight except we are booked to January next year Field Day Officer: The last Field was in July down at Margaret River to Busselton

it was cold and a slight drizzle, the seas were small but the swell was up slight South

Easterly winds and lots of weed, 10 away Field day members and one local member, 9

species was weighed in and only one Salmon was caught by George at Brighton Road, 13

species were measured in at the length competition. Refer Field report for further details

The next Field is at Rottnest subject to the weather conditions.

Ian Cook gave the new members information on the Rottnest Field day

Dry Casting Officer: Thanks to all those who attended and assisted at the Dry Casting, 3

new Members attended. See Dry Casting Report for further results.

AAA Report: Presentations next Tuesday Night at 7.00pm 18 August for the AAA – Angler of the Year and Champion Club Presentations 2008 / 2009 Holly Walker – Equal First – Junior Competition Ben Pullella – Equal Second Mini Junior Competition AAA – Annual General Meeting 18 August 28/29 November Swan/Canning River Estuary Event 2010 – Beach and Rock event 13 & 14 March – to be confirmed I received a phone call from Robert Smith, he is the National President of the Australian Anglers Association, he is asking the Government to registered the AAA as a National Sporting Body, that means if there is any funding available we might be able to apply We finally got some notice on Jimmy‟s Certificate of Appreciation and at which I was able to get over there the last Convention Meeting and the draft has been approved now and will be sent shortly. At the last AAA meeting, The Certificate of Honour was handed to Richard Siudak who is The National Recorder President AAARA, on behalf of WA for his Service of 28 years to the Association. Recorder: Nothing much to report, General Competition details given to New members

Emu Springs contact Ian if Dogs are to be taken, permission is required

Social Organizer: All Certificates of appreciation handed out to all sponsors. 5 Calendars

are left for sale. Thanks to Jennie for the crochet of the two scarves.

Notices of Motion: None

Suspension of Standing Orders at: 2110 hrs

13 August 2008, Annual General Meeting Minutes read out by John Crompton.

Moved: Sandra Wessels Seconded: Mark Hansen ……… Carried

President Chair was declared vacant.

All Committee positions were declared vacant

Call for three volunteers to collect/ count the voting slips – Malcolm Head, Dean Stewart

and Peet Wessels

Elected Committee Members for 2009 / 2010

President George Holman

Vice President Terry Fuller

Treasurer Bev Grigo

Secretary John Crompton

Property Officer Vix Alexander

Social Organizer Michelle Walker

Recorder Ian Cook

Field Day Officer Mark Hansen

Assistant Field Day Officer Peter Stoeckel

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Dry Casting Officer Bob Henderson

Assistant Dry Casting Officer Allan Jones

Reel Talk Editor Jennie Stoeckel

AAA Delegate George Holman

AAA Delegate Terry Fuller

Recfishwest Representative Terry Fuller

Immediate Past President Greg Walker

President Elect - George Holman, Firstly I would like to thank Greg Walker for the time he

has been in the Chair to for fill the position, also I would like to thank all of you for putting

me in this position, and I will endeavor to do whatever to make the club run efficiently you

the Members will be running the Club.

I look forward to the new people coming into the Committee to help out the Club and have

a positive attitude with the aim of making the club functioning for another 50years,

We have been going for over Fifty years that in itself says a lot for the Club, that is the

reason why I put my hand up, I got a lot back out of the Club and people should be putting

back into the Club what they got out of it thank you very much.

I would also like to thank all the past Committee Members, they have done their jobs to the

best of their ability.

This concludes the Election of Officers, thanks to the New Committee and the Members

who attended and look forward to a constructive year and for the club to function well just

a matter of everyone working together in a positive way, help from the members when

asked and plenty of participation on our Field days, Social and at Dry Casting.

That concluded the Election of Officers at the AGM – carried 2140 hrs

Resumption of Standing Orders

Moved: Mark Hansen Seconded: Peter Stoeckel……………..Carried.

General Business:

Trevor Stam gave a Donation of $70.00 to the Trophy Fund

Marcia reports that the Trophy given to her at the Presentation Night, her Name has been

spelt wrong.

George - We are chasing the Sports Man of the Year Trophy anyone who knows where it

is please return the Trophy back to the Surf Casters Club.

A sincere thanks to all members who put their hands in their pockets and are assisting

John to Clean up Jimmy‟s House and a sincere thanks to John for giving his time and

helping to assist Jimmy, this is what this Club is all about.

Instruction Period:

September – General information on various Fishing Rigs used by the Members, please

bring in your General Rigs used for Fishing for the Demonstration, tailor / mulloway

mulie / bait type rigs.

October – Fishing with Plastics demonstrated by Lea Taylor

November – Porta Power 12V Jumpstarters, We‟ll jump start anything, anywhere, every

time demonstrated by Gary McAlpine

Raffle:

1st Prize won by Vix Alexander

2nd Prize won by Holly walker

Meeting Closed: 2150 hrs

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September General Meeting

Where: Coolbinia West Perth Amateur Football & Sporting Club

Rooms . Woodsworth Avenue Yokine

When: Wednesday 9th September at 20:00 Hours.

Instruction: BYO tailor/mulloway mulie, bait type rigs.

September Field Day

Where: Emu Springs

When: 26th & 28

th September

Sign on: Saturday 11:00 at camp site Emu Springs.

Weigh in: Sunday 10:00 at camp site Emu Springs.

Boundaries: West: As far as you can drive along the Coast

East: As far as you can drive along the Coast.

October Field Day

Where: Rottnest Island

When: 10th & 11

th October

Where: Rottnest Island

Sign on: Friday at ferry terminal

Weigh in: Sunday To be advised.

Boundaries: Rottnest Island.

Local Field Day for September

When: 26th & 28

th September

Sign on: At the General Meeting or to the FDO by 18:00 on Thursday

Lines down: Saturday 12:00hrs

Weigh in: Monday 10:00hrs George Holman's House. Scales will be

available on his back patio. An adult member must witness weights. FD Money to

be left with the scales in an envelope with your name and details written in the

carbon copy FD book NO MONEY NO POINTS. Results to be phoned into F.D

Officer by 2000hrs that night.

Boundaries: Cape Peron to Two Rocks

Local Field Day for October

When: 10th & 11

th October

Sign on: The FDO by 1800 on Thursday

Lines down: Saturday 14:00 hrs

Weigh in: Sunday 19:00hrs George Holman's House. Scales will be

available on his back patio. An adult member must witness weights. FD Money to

be left with the scales in an envelope with your name and details written in the

carbon copy FD book NO MONEY NO POINTS. Results to be phoned into F.D

Officer by 2000hrs that night.

Boundaries: Cape Peron to Two Rocks

******* Rottnest Field Day October ********

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Final payment is due by the September General Meeting. The total cost is $165 per

person. If you have not paid by then your spot will be given to the next person on the

waiting list.

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Only one Caroline Thompson unit could be booked for the Friday night. Four people will be

going over Friday night. The rest will arrive on the 10:00 ferry. All their gear will go into the

Friday night unit (will be crowded) till we return from West End when we will have access

to the other two units. If anyone wishes to go back on the Sunday ferry they need to advise

me by 1 October so I can organise the ferry and gear pickup.

Sunrise and Sunset

Sunrise Sunset hours Pickup times

Oct 10, 5:43 18:25 12h 41m 12:00 19:30

Oct 11, 5:42 18:25 12h 43m 05:15 19:30

We would need a pickup at 05:15 to be out at West End by sunup on the Sunday. This is a very

long day. In August there were 10h 56m daylight hours. So have a think if you wish to be out all

day or go out about 10:00 on the Sunday. Please give me some feedback.

Tides

Saturday 10th Oct 2009 0.41m @ 12:56 PM

Sunday 11th Oct 2009 0.94m @ 12:15 AM

Last Quarter 0.40m @ 1:32 PM

Monday 12th Oct 2009 0.88m @ 1:00 AM

These tides will make the fishing ok as the tide at 18:00 will be about 0.62 – 0.67 which is still

fishable.

SURF CASTERS CLUB COLOURS

Please contact the Secretary - John Crompton to purchase any of the following

items:

Shirts Short Sleeve -

$ 30.00

Shirts Long Sleeve - $

30.00

Polo Jackets $ 50.00

2 x size

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2 x size 14 1 x Size 16 Thicker

Jackets

Light Jackets

1 x size

16

1 x size 18 2 x XL 2 x XL

1 x size

20

1 x size 26 2 x S 1 x XXL

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A Crabbing Story

The State Team had left to return to WA and now it was time to indulge in some other

activities and enjoy the attractions of Wallaroo SA. My previous attempts at crabbing had

only produced small results but enough to tantalise our tastebuds. Miniscule samples to

Mal and Jenny had them anticipating a decent feed of crabs, depending on our efforts. So,

with a couple of extra crab nets on loan, we ventured out onto the Wallaroo wharf and

adjoining jety and selected a spot to drop our nets. A relaxed atmosphere, some gentle

breezes and a warm sunny arvo put us all in cheery moods.

When baited up, the four nets headed for the water with the retaining ropes securely tied

to the wharf railing. Guess who forgot to put the bait bag lid on tight? Frantic casts got the

top back. The average wait of 10 minutes before pulling in the nets over the next half hour

produced a couple of keepers and a few small ones returned. Encouragement was given

to the Girls to be involved and laughter and joking filled the air.

I then decided to move one of the crab nets a bit further out onto the jetty and observing a

light switch assembly on one of the light poles, I decided to place the crab pot retaining

rope over the light switch. An expert Frisbee styled cast saw the crab net sail out, the

retaining rope flick off the pole switch and it joined the crab pot. PANIC!!! A mad dash

down the wharf, some grovelling to a fisherman to borrow a handline, a dash back, crazy

casts trying to hook up the floating rope with some success and the rope and pot is

brought back to the jetty. With a sigh of relief in not losing a loaned crab net, I asked Mal to

hold onto the rope while I cast out the net again. Another near perfect cast and the net

sailed out with the rope following it. “OOPS” said Mal. Many more frantic casts trying to

retrieve the crab pot rope with good quick results, but the girls are killing themselves

laughing in the background and giving unsympathetic comments on our capabilities.

Bloody rope tied securely.

A few more crabs caught and into the bucket, especially my “big one” which had me

crowing on my crab catching powers. Jenny suggested to Mal that a photo with him

holding onto the “big one” would be nice. Mal gingerly extracted “big one” from the bucket

and held it up ever so gently for a photo to be taken. Old butter fingers sat posing but the

“big one” objected to sharing the limelight with Mal and must have made a threatening

comment to Mal for Mal dropped the “big one” very quickly. The cranky “big one”

staggered around Mal‟s feet in a daze as Mal performed an old fashion Surfy Stomp style

of dance. The “big one”, feared of being stomped on, headed for the side of the jetty,

ignoring Mal‟s cursing at it to desist in its efforts to escape. The “big one” executed a near

perfect dive with one and a half somersaults before entering the water, one claw stuck up

and giving a message to Mal. “OOPS” said Mal......

The laughter and jesting lasted for a while as we consumed consoling cold drinks and

avoided Mal‟s grovelling. Harmony regained and our crab catching efforts continued.

“OOPS” NOT AGAIN......Mal calls out that his crab net‟s bait box lid has come off and is

floating away. Mal heads for the jetty ladder and climbs down to try and reach out for the

lid while I used a bucket to also collect the lid. Mal is unable to get the lid but I‟m

successful and haul it in, filling the bucket with sea water. Now, what do you do with

unwanted sea water? You pour it back into the sea, don‟t you? “Oops, sorry Mal, didn‟t

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know you will still there!” Coughing and muttering, Mal came up topside, stepping over two

silly females rolling on the jetty killing themselves with hysterics. Well I did say sorry, but

somehow Mal did not think I was genuine, for I couldn‟t wipe the silly smirk off my face.

Mal‟s comment of “pigs arse” didn‟t seem to fit the moment!!!!!! It took a while for Mal to dry

out and our crabbing continued with our tally reaching ten crabs.

Then the laughter started again.

Lee was bent over the catch bucket checking our crab tally when Mal crept up and

touched Lee with a wet rag just inside her leg. Guess how high she jumped? Blimey, for a

moment she was speechless, but I can tell you from the look in her eye Mal came close to

trying to extract himself from a crab bait box with both hands and feet tied together.

Within the hour, our efforts dwindled in results, so we packed up and headed back to the

caravan park. The crabs were cooked and cooled, then feasted upon with pleasure and

crab juices ran down our chins and arms. The cold medicinal beverages completed and

enjoyable meal.

We sat back and reminisced on the afternoon‟s events and added them to our eternal

memories of great times together.

TIZ ALL TRUE......... HENDO

An appeal to all Club Members; an animal refuge is seeking donations

of old, clean blankets to help keep the dogs warm during winter nights

when the temperature dips to

almost freezing.

Please contact

John Crompton

with any donations.

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PRESIDENT‟S REPORT

I seem to have been in this position a number of times in the past and because I

was asked by quite a few members to nominate, I did; therefore your support is

appreciated.

We have a full committee elected for the ensuing year and I look forward to working

with them in a positive way to look after all our interests and to achieve. The committee will

be a committee of management, but you, the members, will be guiding them and the Club

in the direction you want to go.

If any member has any suggestions or ideas, don‟t sit on them; contact me or a

committee member so wherever possible, they will bear fruit!! A club is about everyone

working together to achieve, such as camaraderie, enjoyment, and learning in our three

main activities: fishing, casting, and social.

Clubs are mainly about people and we have at present a fine example of this. Our

Secretary, John Crompton, has followed up on a report that one of our senior members in

Jim Strong needed a little help because of a recent operation and another one happening

soon. Jim is on his own and of senior years and when John approached him with an offer

of help, Jim consented. John has organised cleaning, equipment for the house and co-

ordinated offers of help from quite a number of club members and friends. Two things

shine out here – a club member (John) helping out another club member and friend (Jim)

co-ordinating a lot of help and monetary offers of assistance from Jim‟s friends; and

secondly the large number of friends of Jim‟s from all walks of life helping out with offers of

help and monetary assistance. This is a positive way that they can say thank you to Jim for

fifty years plus in the club and work he has done and the positions he has held to make

our club what it is today. Bouquets to you all.

Geoff Raftis is to go to hospital for a few modifications and renovations, and we all

wish you all the best and hope to see you casting and fishing in the near future.

Bob Henderson (our new DCO) will be back in Perth late September and we look

forward to his return after he and his wife, Leonie, have travelled far and wide in their new

caravan. In the meantime, Peter Pekaar will officiate at the casting days ably assisted by

our new Assistant DCO, Allan Jones. Let‟s see you all attending our dry casting mornings

and compliment their efforts.

Over the next 12 months, there will be a number of projects undertaken and they

will materialise as time passes.

To get you all in a forward-thinking mode, I will start by getting you all to start

thinking about where you would like to go for a Club Safari or holiday for 2010. I have two

suggestions to make, but you may think of something else, but we need to make a

decision soon so that we can all start planning and making arrangements.

If you want a fishing safari, the location I would suggest is Cape Cuvier (Quobba

Station) north of Carnarvon. There is basic accommodation available and camping, and

most locations are accessible to standard vehicles. May/June/July are good months to fish

the area. Gas ballooning, lure and bottom fishing are the main types of activities. The

length of time would need to be at least a week, but if people work in small groups, they

can book their accommodation and length of stay to suit and from a safari point of view,

liaise and work together in the original planning and also of the activities up there.

From a Club point of view, a number of instruction periods could be used to the

benefit of all club members in what to use and how to use it, equipment, and bait. Think

about it.

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The second would be a week‟s holiday/fishing at Esperance which would involve

wives and families. Need to look at when and whether we need to think about school

holidays (which depends on whether children are coming or not). The time of year I would

suggest is mid to late September when everything is green and the wildflowers are

abundant. People could arrange their own accommodation to suit. We could all work

together as a group and arrange fishing outings, picnics to different locations and scenic

trips of interest, nights out at a restaurant or two etc. Swap fishing ideas and knowledge.

Also when we are at Esperance, there will be the opportunity to liaise with the

Esperance Surf Casters if you so wish.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Our next field day is at Emu Springs on 26-28 September and I am sure our FDO,

Mark Hansen, and his assistant, Peter Stoeckel, would like to see as many of you down

there as possible. There was a good write-up in the August Reel Talk, so use this as a

reference and start planning now. See you all down there.

I look forward to you all helping our new committee people by your participation in

fishing, casting & social activities.

Let‟s all be positive and not negative and I will endeavour to run tight meetings so

we have more time for instruction and social.

Instruction Period

As I asked at the AGM, I would like you to bring your tailor/mulloway mulie/bait type rig you

mainly use so we can learn from you as to why you make it that way, the benefits or

otherwise, and compare your rig to others presented. There is a lot to learn from other

members.

George Holman

New Member Acceptances

The following applications for membership have been accepted, and will be invited to the next

General Meeting to be welcomed in to the Club.

Kevin Frampton & Katie Bryce Vince & Lisa Iozzi

Peter Iozzi Charles & Violet Faure Andrew & Julie Vanzyl

Terry Willison

New Member Application

“Application for membership has been received and will come before the next Committee

meeting. If any member has any reason why any of the applications should not be

accepted, please contact a Committee Member and state the reason.”

Stefan Wiklund,

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Rottnest Island Field Day Report - 15&16 August 2009

All week the weather reports were forecasting increasing storms,

gale force winds and huge seas. So when we received news that

the 6.00pm Friday ferry had been brought back to 3.00pm

because of the ferocity of the predicted storm, some re-arranging

of work schedules needed to take place in order to be at Rous

Head by 2.30pm. 11 of us gathered at the terminal, some in wet

weather gear, watching the swells crash over North Mole. Except

for our rods, we packed all our gear into the 2 aluminium cargo

cages provided by the ferry company and awaited departure, instead the ferry

master‟s voice came over the P.A. informing all and sundry that the departure was

delayed because of the weather and a further announcement will be made at 3.30.

The minutes ticked by while the

increasing winds raged around us, at

the appointed time the P.A. told us the ferry had been

cancelled for Friday and will depart 6.45am Saturday, so

we all went back home. The next morning saw us all back

there, but the weather seemed just as bad as Friday‟s, the

P.A. announced that there would be a slight delay as the

ferry had been holed during the night and it would take

about 10 minutes to effect a repair of the smashed window.

Just after 7.00am the ferry cast off and stopping briefly at

the E Shed to pick up more passengers, headed west through mountainous seas towards Rotto. The

crew offered spew bags for those that wanted them, then had to fetch more from the stores as they

proved to be very popular with the slightly green gilled brigade, several Surfcasters looked decidedly ill

but managed to “contain” themselves. Once we made landfall, the 2 keys were collected for our

accommodation and we wandered up to the bungalows. The cargo cages were delivered and quickly

unpacked then after a replenishing

feed the fishing gear was organised

in readiness for the 12.30 bus trip

to west end. Once out there it

became quite apparent that the

swell would be a problem. Ian

Taggert, Mal Harris, Lea Taylor,

Greg Keet, Peet and Sandra

Wessels shouldered reef-bags, backpacks

and rods went down to Wilsons to wet a

line and brave the swells. Wilsons

produced the usual 2 tailor and some nice

skippy, blackfish, breaksea cod, a pike and

Mal, in his “Quest for the Unusual”, caught and released a turtle. Meanwhile

Ian Cook, Vix Alexander, Charles [this is my first time at Rotto] Faure, Mark

and Wendy Hansen scrambled down the goat tracks to Tennis Courts as the

swells rolling across Radar and the Tailor hole made them too dangerous to

fish until later when the tide had dropped. The Tennis Courts offered herring,

wrasse, blackfish, tarwhine and breaksea cod. Cookie managed to break his

rod trying to pull the mouth

out of a wrasse. By 3.00pm

the tide had ebbed enough

to make Radar “safe” for

Mark, Cookie and, a bit

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later, Lea and Charles to venture out and cast into the

surging seas at the reef‟s edge to catch some good

skippy, Mark managed to bag a nice one using

plastics on a 10/0 hook! The sun was heading close to

the horizon when Cookie started to hook-up on yellow

tail kingfish [YTK] using mulies on a baitcasting rig.

Both Mark and Lea had zero YTK luck using plastics.

Cookie‟s bouts with the numerous YTK had damaged

his shoulder so his fishing was finished that night.

Everyone made their way in the dark, back up

to the bus pick up area to shed sodden

wetsuits and don dry clothes for the trip back.

While waiting for our transportation Vix made

coffee and some “medicine”, courtesy of Dr

Jamieson, was added to “Irish” up the coffee,

which helped stave off the cold. The bus was

packed with all our stuff and by 8.00pm we

were on the road to warmth and dinner. The

rain drummed on the iron roof while we had

starters of cheese, paté and crackers. By

Sunday morning the weather had improved but

Cookie‟s shoulder hadn‟t, the bus picked 10 of us up at 10.00am and we disembarked and unpacked by

10.30, Mal, Vix, Ian, Greg, Charles and Lea started at Wilsons. The Wessels and Hansens climbed down

the limestone goat track to Tennis Courts to add more fish to their bags, wrasse seemed to be the

species of the day, but Peet and Sandra got onto some of the species that where there the previous day.

While people were out on the reef, crows and

seagulls got into tackle/bait bags looking for food

they devoured a full bag of mulies and a packet of

biscuits but didn‟t think much of the liquorice

allsorts and strew them around the rocks in disgust.

Around 2.00ish, people started to migrate in dribs

and drabs to Radar in readiness for the Yellow Tail

onslaught, apart from a few false alarms due to the

“suddenly carnivorous“ buff bream, we cast fruitlessly into the waters for what seemed a long time before

the first YTK struck about an hour before sunset. A few just undersized ones were caught and released,

many bust offs occurred and

Greg‟s rod succumbed to the brute

force for which these fish are

renowned. Right on dusk they

came, their tails could be seen

breaking through the surface, and

those fishermen with mulies in the

water were hit hard and often!

Darkness descended, and those

with their bag limit or had had

enough headed back to dry land to

clean their fish. Charles, while

trying to fetch his headlight out of

his reef-bag, was struck from

behind by an unseen wave and

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had his brand new rod and

reel knocked from his grip and

washed into Davey Jones‟s

Locker never to be seen

again! Bugger! Well at least

he had bagged 2 nice YTK.

The weigh in was back at the

bungalows 15 minutes after

arrival, everyone weighed in

fish including 6 people with

YTK. 11 species were presented, Charles and Greg had two yellow tails each, well done chaps, in fact

one of Greg Keet‟s won him Best Scale Fish at 3.216kg. Malcolm Harris had Best Bag of Scale Fish with

exactly 10.00kg. In the Length Comp 12 species

added up to a total of 50.31 metres, Peet Wessels

10.83 metres was the winning total for the month.

Three surfcasters fished locally and caught one

whiting between them. Once the paper work was over

and happy snaps of the weekend‟s achievements

taken, dinner and showers beckoned.

Early Monday morning

we cleaned the

accommodation, the

Quokkas invited themselves in to inspect our Nelly bins before we packed

the crates into the cargo cages for the trip back. Once the Rods were

“Tubed” for their protection, everyone wandered

down to the bakery for breakfast/morning tea

and coffee [sans “medicine”] while the local

wildlife fossicked for titbits. The weather had

been on the improve since Sunday midday and

the ferry trip home was positively pleasurable as

compared to the one two days previous. Back at

Rous head we disembarked, collected our gear and bade our farewells.

Our next Field Day is a

long weekend down near

Augusta at Emu Springs; this venue has the absolute

best campsite of all our excursions and is 2WD

accessible to the camping grounds. The beach, on

the other hand, requires a serious 4WD, but big tailor

and mulloway have been bagged there. Because of

the currents and prevailing wind direction, many

interesting things are washed up for all those that

love a bit of beachcombing.

Mark Hansen

Field Day Officer

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BOTANIC GOLF HAS BEEN BOOKED FOR THE 18TH OCTOBER 2009.

START TIME 4.30PM-5.00PM. THIS HAS BEEN BOOKED AS A

GROUP BOOKING SO THAT WE GET THE DISCOUNTED RATE. SO

TO MAKE THIS WORK WE NEED 20 OR MORE PEOPLE TO COME

AND HAVE A GREAT TIME.

THE DISCOUNTED RATE FOR 20 OR MORE PEOPLE IS-

ADULTS $14.00

CONCESSION $11.50

CHILDREN 4 – 15 YEAR OLD $10.00

NON PLAYING ADULTS $4.00

NON PLAYING CHILDREN FREE

FOR DINNER AFTER GOLF A TABLE HAS BEEN BOOKED TO HAVE

WOODFIRED PIZZAS AT 6.30PM (this is NOT included in the entry fee)

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN MAKE IT:

MICHELLE 0407037725

In the Fishing Club Calendar please note the following incorrect dates:-

School holidays for the end of fourth term shows up from the beginning of December 2009

to the end of January 2010. Please note the CORRECT dates are as follows: school

holidays commence on the 18th December 2009 through to 1st February 2010.

Night drycasting which shows up on the Calendar in November 2009 will be confirmed in

the next Reel Talk or phone Michelle on 0407 037 725.

Please note, Michelle Greg and Holly’s Annual Christmas Party is on

Saturday, 28th November, 2009 at 34 King Edward Drive Heathridge.

BYO Salad and Drinks.

All Members and Partners are invited.

RSVP November General Meeting 11/11/2009.

Please contact Michelle on 0407 037 725

or Greg 0407 037 721

or email gregwalkercontract@bigpond.com

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Recorders Report for September

2009 - 2010

Open Competition Results including August

Section For Min Weight Details

1. Most Meritorious Capture None Winner chosen by the Committee, if the Committee considers meritorious enough.

2. Best Shark 4.5 kg

3. Best Mulloway 5.0 kg

4. Best Salmon 3.5 kg

5. Best Dhufish Legal size

6. Best Tailor 1.5 kg George Holman Wagoe 2.30 kg

7. Best Samson Fish 1.5 kg

8. Best Fish on single handed rod, maximum 4kg line class

Legal size

9. Best Pink Snapper 2.0 kg

10. Best Tarwhine 0.5 kg

11. Best Mackeral 4.0 kg

12. Best Skipjack Trevally (southern)

1.0 kg

13. Best Trevally (northern) 4.0 kg

14. Best Snook/Pike 0.5 kg

15. Best Black or Yellow fin Bream 0.6 kg

16. Best Scale fish other than sections 3 to 14

2.0 kg

17. Best Fish caught on Fly Rod. Legal size

Field Day Sections up to and including August

Section Angler Species Weight

1A Best Scale Fish (1st Six Months)

Theo Van

Niekerk Salmon 4.432

1B Best Scale Fish (2nd Six Months)

2 Most Meritous Fish

3 Best Shark (4.5kg min)

4 Best Mulloway (2.0kg min)

5 Best Tailor (1.0kg min) David Maxted Tailor 1.684

6 Best Salmon (3kg min)

Theo Van

Niekerk Salmon 4.432

7 Best Skipjack Trevally (0.5 kg min) Malcolm Harris

Trevally,

Skipjack 0.770

8 Best Mackerel (2kg Min)

9 Best Scale Fish (Other than above) Greg Keet

Yellowtail

Kingfish 3.216

10 Best Bag Of Scale Fish Malcolm Harris Mixed Bag 10.00

11 Best Bag Of Mulloway (2 Fish Min)

12 Best Bag Of Tailor (2 Fish Min) George Holman Tailor 1.972

13 Best Fish On S/H Rod 4kg b/s line (max) Mark Hansen Flathead 0.566

14 Best Fish Caught on Fly Rod

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Sportsperson Of The Year Sections for August

Section Angler Species Weight

Best Scale Fish Greg Keet

Yellowtail

Kingfish 3.216

Best Bag of Scale fish Malcolm Harris Mixed Bag 10.000

Field Day Prizes for August

Section Angler Species Weight

Best Scale Fish Greg Keet

Yellowtail

Kingfish 3.216

Best Bag of Scale fish Malcolm Harris Mixed Bag 10.000

Masters Fish for August

Angler Species Weight kg

Malcolm Harris Trevally, Skipjack 0.770

Lea Taylor Trevally, Skipjack 0.750

Peet Wessels Trevally, Skipjack 0.750

Charles Faure Yellowtail Kingfish 3.216

Barron Lure Competition 2009 – 2010

Heaviest Tailor George Holman 2.3 kg

Heaviest Salmon

Tight Lines

Ian

Top Ten up to August

Rank Angler Total Points

1 Malcolm Harris 774.6

2 Peet Wessels 586.3

3 Sandra Wessels 465.7

4 Mark Hansen 372.3

5 Vix Alexander 237.4

6 Ian Cook 235.4

7 George Holman 228.7

8 Wendy Hansen 211.8

9 Greg Keet 188.4

10 Charles Faure 186.2

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DRY CASTING REPORT

2 August 2009

By Peter Pekaar

Arriving at the oval on 2 August, we were treated to a beautiful, cloudless sky. The weather was

cool at first and warmed up to be a pleasant day. The winds were light north-easterly at the start of

the day, strengthening during the morning. The barometer was quite high, around 1,032.

This month, we welcomed three visitors: Charles Faure, Andrew Kymantas, and Gino Bird.

Double Handed Accuracy scores of note were Gary Gildersleeves – 169 points; Wendy Hansen

101 points; Charles Faure 101 points, which included a bull‟s eye on his first cast and this was the

second highest score in the Seniors.

The highest Single Handed Accuracy score was by George Holman with 29 points and the second

highest score was by Allan Jones with 25 points. There were four bull‟s eyes on the day – two in

D/H Accuracy by Charles and Terry Fuller; and two in S/H Accuracy by Eric Parker and Marcia

Pekaar.

Considering the average conditions, young Rhys Jones did well to cast 150 metres, which was the

longest 112g cast for the day, and Terry Willison had the longest 56g cast of the day with

134 metres.

Sections Winners

Seniors: Peter Pekaar 214 points

Veterans: Gary Gildersleeves 279 points

Ladies: Marcia Pekaar 173 points

Juniors: Holly Walker 80 points

Mini Juniors: Kaitlin Stoeckel 39 points

All members who attended on the day can take credit for their assistance with the set up and

retrieval of equipment. Thanks go to Greg Walker for putting the flags out and Holly Walker &

Kaitlin Stoeckel for retrieving them after a long day.

Our next casting date is 13 September 2009 when Seniors will be doing Accuracy first, then

Distance; Vets, Ladies & Juniors will be doing Distance first then Accuracy.

Straightest Centre Cast

During the normal casting in September, I will offer a free burger and drink to the caster with the

straightest centre cast, as determined by the markers and the laser operator. The distance of the

cast is irrelevant; what counts is who gets their sinker to land the closest to the centre line of the

court. A spike will be used to mark the casts which are deemed to be very central. The person

looking through the laser will determine the straightness to the central flag and the spike will be

moved appropriately. A record needs to be kept as to whose cast it was at the last movement of

the spike. In the event of a tie, both casters will receive a meal.

This is just a fun, social event. No points are to be awarded, so please keep it light hearted.

112g Open

After our regular casting in September we will have a 112g Open and we encourage everyone to

participate. Remember, you are welcome to cast with a weight up to and including 112g.

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Dry Casting Results, 2 August 2009 These results have been prepared from the original hand written distances and scores recorded on the day. Marcia and Peter Pekaar copied the scores from the score

sheets into an electronic format, adjusted the distance scores for the 20 metre measurement setback, and cross checked all final figures against the original score sheets.

Terry Fuller used his computer system to process the results to calculate the points, add all together, sort into final score order, extract the section winners and year‟s best

as shown on the second page, and progressive scores for use at the end of the competition year.

Results for the day 56 gram Artificial Bait 112 gram Double Handed Accuracy Single Handed Accuracy

Cast Cast Cast Cast Cast Cast Target number Target distance Day Attendance Total

Seniors 1 (m) 2 (m) Points 1 (m) 2 (m) Points 1 (m) 2 (m) Points 3 3 1 1 4 4 2 2 Points L S L S Points Total D C G M Points

Peter Pekaar 123 117 24 116 116 23 130 136 27 4 21 22 19 18 5 10 4 103 0 4 5 8 17 194 10 10 214

Charles Faure 79 81 16 82 86 17 87 94 18 25 6 22 11 0 0 22 15 101 0 2 0 8 10 162 10 10 182

Rhys Jones 116 104 22 121 119 24 150 139 29 0 1 9 5 9 18 18 0 60 6 0 0 8 14 149 10 159

Terry Willison 125 134 26 112 106 22 0 0 0 10 19 14 4 0 0 21 0 68 6 0 1 7 14 130 10 10 150

Mark Hansen 111 110 22 103 104 21 0 0 0 0 15 16 5 3 0 19 8 66 0 3 1 8 12 121 10 10 141

Peter Stoeckel 85 95 18 96 0 10 110 99 21 13 3 0 0 20 0 4 0 40 6 3 6 3 18 107 10 10 127

Eric Parker 95 104 20 94 94 19 110 0 11 0 0 0 0 10 0 17 0 27 6 10 0 6 22 99 10 10 119

Andrew Kymantas 60 59 12 71 74 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 17 32 0 0 0 0 0 59 10 69

Greg Walker 10 10 20

Veterans

Gary Gildersleeves 122 129 25 109 103 21 133 134 27 15 21 24 24 22 21 21 21 169 4 4 7 2 17 259 10 10 279

George Holman 118 128 25 106 109 22 139 142 28 22 11 24 12 15 14 21 18 137 8 9 8 4 29 241 10 10 261

Malcolm Head 110 110 22 96 93 19 119 125 24 11 12 21 19 7 21 19 12 122 4 6 3 5 18 205 10 10 225

Terry Fuller 94 101 20 83 83 17 88 0 9 20 6 24 16 17 16 25 21 145 5 6 6 6 23 214 10 224

Allan Jones 109 96 21 94 100 19 122 109 23 15 15 0 10 22 13 22 18 115 5 8 7 5 25 203 10 10 223

John Crompton 0 51 5 77 0 8 97 95 19 21 8 8 15 0 0 13 7 72 0 0 0 0 0 104 10 10 124

Trevor Stam 65 59 12 64 47 11 63 61 12 0 0 0 2 0 15 14 8 39 0 4 0 9 13 87 10 10 107

Gino Bird 20 15 8 0 12 15 9 8 87 87 10 97

Ladies

Marcia Pekaar 88 90 18 78 77 16 101 103 20 0 3 12 16 17 1 8 24 81 0 10 8 0 18 153 10 10 173

Wendy Hansen 63 30 9 49 67 12 64 95 16 24 6 13 17 0 0 23 18 101 0 1 0 0 1 139 10 10 159

Michelle Walker 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 24 7 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 8 6 0 4 0 10 25 10 10 45

Juniors

Holly Walker 46 51 10 35 32 7 48 33 8 0 0 14 9 0 0 0 3 26 3 2 0 4 9 60 10 10 80

Mini Juniors

Kaitlin Stoeckel 19 22 4 26 22 5 19 19 4 6 2 3 5 16 29 10 39

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Dry Casting Winners for 2 August 2009 These results have been prepared by Marcia and Peter Pekaar and Terry Fuller from the original

hand written distances and scores recorded on the day.

Event Seniors winner Veterans winner

56 gram Score 26 Terry Willison 25 Gary Gildersleeves, George Holman

56 gram Distance 134 Terry Willison 129 Gary Gildersleeves

Artificial Bait Score 24 Rhys Jones 22 George Holman

Artificial Bait Distance 121 Rhys Jones 109 Gary Gildersleeves, George Holman

112 gram Score 29 Rhys Jones 28 George Holman

112 gram Distance 150 Rhys Jones 142 George Holman

Double Handed Accuracy 103 Peter Pekaar 169 Gary Gildersleeves

Single Handed Accuracy 22 Eric Parker 29 George Holman

Section Highest Points 214 Peter Pekaar 279 Gary Gildersleeves

Event Ladies winner Junior winner Mini Junior winner

56 gram Score 18 Marcia Pekaar 10 Holly Walker 4 Kaitlin Stoeckel

56 gram Distance 90 Marcia Pekaar 51 Holly Walker 22 Kaitlin Stoeckel

Artificial Bait Score 16 Marcia Pekaar 7 Holly Walker 5 Kaitlin Stoeckel

Artificial Bait Distance 78 Marcia Pekaar 35 Holly Walker 26 Kaitlin Stoeckel

112 gram Score 20 Marcia Pekaar 8 Holly Walker 4 Kaitlin Stoeckel

112 gram Distance 103 Marcia Pekaar 48 Holly Walker 19 Kaitlin Stoeckel

Double Handed Accuracy 101 Wendy Hansen 26 Holly Walker

Single Handed Accuracy 18 Marcia Pekaar 9 Holly Walker 16 Kaitlin Stoeckel

Section Highest Points 173 Marcia Pekaar 80 Holly Walker 39 Kaitlin Stoeckel

Event Overall winner for August Year‟s best up to August

56 gram Score 26 Terry Willison 28 Malcolm Harris

56 gram Distance 134 Terry Willison 142 Malcolm Harris

Artificial Bait Score 24 Rhys Jones 27 Peter Pekaar, Malcolm Harris

Artificial Bait Distance 121 Rhys Jones 138 Peter Pekaar

112 gram Score 29 Rhys Jones 33 Malcolm Harris

112 gram Distance 150 Rhys Jones 168 Malcolm Harris

Double Handed Accuracy 169 Gary Gildersleeves 169 Malcolm Head, Gary Gildersleeves

Single Handed Accuracy 29 George Holman 29 George Holman

Section Highest Points 279 Gary Gildersleeves 279 Malcolm Harris

Dry Casting Top Scores for 2009/10 Total scores up to and including August casting. Only the best 11 months out of 12 will count at the

end of the competition year.

Name Points Rank Name Points Rank Name Points Rank

Allan Jones 968 1 Trevor Stam 395 14 Greg Walker 70 27

George Holman 968 2 Vix Alexander 352 15 Andrew

Kymantas

69 28

Peter Pekaar 810 3 Ian Cook 345 16 Kevin Frampton 35 29

Terry Fuller 805 4 Holly Walker 331 17 Eric Leigh 31 30

Marcia Pekaar 742 5 Peter Stoeckel 290 18 Matt Dillon 31 31

Mark Hansen 715 6 Gary

Gildersleeves

279 19 Geoff Raftis 20 32

John Crompton 658 7 Michelle Walker 244 20

Dean Stewart 537 8 Terry Willison 224 21

Rhys Jones 537 9 Charles Faure 213 22

Malcolm Harris 482 10 Jeff Hewton 181 23

Malcolm Head 478 11 Jim Strong 130 24

Wendy Hansen 473 12 Kaitlin Stoeckel 111 25

Eric Parker 418 13 Gino Bird 97 26

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SCAC website report for September 2009 Reel Talk.

The August Reel Talk had an article suggesting a sub-committee of club members be formed to consider the Club‟s requirements for the website, and that members be asked to volunteer for the sub-committee. I was away from Perth for 2 weeks but I have not yet had any response to that article or enquiries from anyone before or after that trip. The questions about the website will need to be addressed by the new Committee. The August Reel Talk has been placed on the website. I have not been provided with any other material for the website. The website as a reference source for information for members. The existing website has a lot of club information and reference material on it. Examples are the Constitution, Competition Rules, past Reel Talks, etc, etc. These are freely available to everyone, public and members. Every organisation faces the question:- How does it store all the current and past information needed by Club Members and Committee in a place where everyone who needs it can get access to it, know that they are using the very latest version, and that everyone is actually using the same version? A paper copy can be kept of everything, but that raises questions for this Club:- Kept where? Who keeps it all up to date? And how do other people get access and get a copy? This is an enormous amount of work, and often does not deliver as has been demonstrated many times. Email has made it possible to send electronic copies to other people. That then introduces questions about keeping the versions up to date, how can people find out if the version they have is the latest one, size of files and email limitations, etc. Many organisations have moved to keeping electronic copies in one central place, where the latest version is always available. Then different and extra questions come up. How do people get access? Who should have access? How is access controlled? And more. These are stored on what is effectively a private website which is not visible or accessible to unauthorised people or the public who may access other parts of the website. Passwords and/or some sort of encryption can be used for security. The good news is that it‟s all been done before, there‟s little new and most of the problems have been sorted out. The bad news is that someone has to do it – and that‟s more work for the website coordinator. A start on a central store for Club information. I joined the Committee in June 2009 and took on the job of “Minutes Secretary” to help the real Secretary, John Crompton. The General and Committee meetings are recorded electronically to help with the preparation of the minutes of the meetings. These recordings are made available to Committee members. Some were emailed, but some email services cannot accept the sizes of those files, and it is not good practice to send very large files via email, because that can “lock up” people‟s emails. So I have trialled placing these recordings and the various draft and final versions of the minutes on a private part of the Club website. Then Committee members can access that page and download and print whatever they want at any time to suit themselves. Paper copies are provided to those Committee members without Internet access. As additional security, I have password encrypted the private part of the page so that even if an unauthorised person accessed the page, they still cannot access the Club material. All Committee members have been given the password, which will be changed from time to time. For some, it‟s a new way of working in this electronic age. All Committee members need to do is keep the password and the page URL and then they have online, on demand access to lots of guaranteed up to date information they need to do their job. A similar approach could be used for storing information which needs to be reserved for Club Members eyes only. Members without Internet access can be handed or posted paper copies as at present. Terry Fuller, Website Editor.

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Recfishwest report for Reel Talk September 2009 I was not able to attend the Club‟s August General Meeting due to a long planned 2 week fishing trip to Exmouth. That‟s a really tough job, but someone‟s got to do it. Anyway here‟s a report for the September Reel Talk.

1. West Coast and boat fishing licences. The hot topic in the last few weeks has been the reactions to the announcement of boat fishing licences State wide and demersal fishing licences for the West Coast, as covered in my last report. It‟s disappointing seeing some of the misinformation and misleading statements flying around from some people and organisations who know better, or who really should know better, particularly the emotive and misleading stuff such as the cost of children fishing. A new website http://www.fishingtaxgrab.com/ has been set up. It says “FishingTaxGrab.com is run by concerned fishing and boating families and businesses; the coordinators are Neil Bartholomaeus of Manjimup and Ben Patrick of Fremantle.” This says that it wants consultation with the community before the Government introduces fishing tax grabs, and urges people to write to their Member of Parliament. In Parliament, the Opposition has moved a disallowance motion about the licences. There are 30 pages of the debate in Hansard. Check out the confusion and the political statements. Link http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard%5Chansard.nsf/0/4bec59ef530f5a91c8257612002a670f/$FILE/A38%20S1%2020090812%20p5829c-5857a.pdf It's anyone's guess just now what will happen when it comes to the vote. Parliament does not sit again until Tuesday 8 September, so that's the very earliest that disallowance motion could be voted on. The agenda for those sittings is not yet available. The Premier and the Minister have stood firm that the 50% reduction in the mortality of fish due to recreational fishing is not negotiable, and have challenged the opponents to come up with alternatives to achieve that. Recfishwest has had meetings with the Dept of Fisheries and the Fisheries Minister's staff. Further meetings will be held, including with the other groups which have made comments recently. Watching the comments in the media etc and talking to some people, it is obvious there is a lot of confusion over boat licences and licences as part of demersal management - as predicted. Dept of Fisheries has held some country meetings to discuss all this, but only one (so far) in the metro area at the Marmion Angling Club, and that was restricted to members. It seems that Fisheries needs to do much more to get the right message out to more people, and also to answer some of the concerns raised by people. They should stress that the primary aim of the changes is to reduce fishing mortality so that stocks will recover and be adequate to take advantage of the occasional favourable conditions which allow good breeding success (recruitment), whenever that might occur. It is NOT a spawning season or spawning areas closure, although such closures could form part of the package of management measures. But these need to consider displaced effort and $dollar cost if commercial fishing compensation is involved, because that will raise a new complaint that commercial fishermen are getting compensated and recreation fishermen are just told "go way, there's no compensation for you". Also critical, the Dept of Fisheries needs to proactively answer the questions about management of commercial fishing and catches and ALL the causes of demersal mortality from ALL commercial fishing. For example, to provide convincing facts and figures and management details which show, and will convince the doubting public that the commercial wetline demersal catch is managed tightly enough so that commercial wetline fishing can still be allowed in any period when recreational fishing is closed or restricted. Yes, I know these are off the topic of recreational management, but they are being used as diversions to the real issues which are that THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS. These topics need to be answered with the facts. Ignoring them is not an option, because they will continue to rankle recreational fishermen who would see the commercial fishing during the closed season, and these "inequities" will continue to be used to criticize the recreational management packages and divert people from the real issues in those. The busy times continue!!

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2. Changes to the Recfishwest Constitution A Special General Meeting was held on 24 August to vote on a revised Constitution for Recfishwest. The Constitution changes were approved by a large majority. Recfishwest members could put in postal votes, so there was a possibility that most would not actually attend the SGM. My special thanks to SCAC and RFW members John Crompton, Bev Grigo, Dave Maxted and George Holman who took the time to attend to help make sure there was a quorum at the meeting. The changes to the Constitution included:-

• Modifying the objects to reflect the current and future challenges facing Recfishwest. • Clarifying membership criteria for Associations. • Simplifying the disciplinary provisions while still allowing for natural justice. • Changing the Board composition by reducing the Public and Association members by one

each. • Adding 4 regional representatives to the Board being one each from Pilbara/Kimberley,

Gascoyne, West Coast and South Coast. • Including non-financial interests in the disclosure of interest provisions. • Appointing Association members to a two year term voted on by all members of

Recfishwest. • Allowing for electronic attendance at Board Meetings.

http://www.recfishwest.org.au/SGMNotice2009.htm has the full revised Constitution.

3. Recfishwest Membership Recfishwest is the peak body representing the interests of recreational fishers in Western Australia. Last year when the organization was under threat, recreational fishers supported Recfishwest, but we need you to continue that support. Decisions to be made in 2009 will affect future fishing opportunities for your children and grandchildren. Recfishwest intends meeting these challenges and assures you that we will be the most effective vehicle for getting your views heard in this crucial year. Recfishwest is your public voice whenever decisions which affect our fisheries, or access to them, are being made. We want you to become a member of Recfishwest or to renew your membership. Membership costs only $20 a year per person, $40 for families and $10 for seniors. Please contact the office on (08) 9246 3366, email to recfish@recfishwest.org.au or apply at the Recfishwest website, http://www.recfishwest.org.au/MembershipDet.htm Together we can make a difference!! This report has been prepared by Terry Fuller, your Recfishwest Board Member for the Australian Anglers Association working voluntarily on your behalf. Contact Terry on 9447 4545 or email terryfuller@iinet.net.au with any questions or comments.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Congratulations to the following SCAC members who celebrate their birthday in

September:

Sam Wee 2nd

Mark Farnay 3rd

Sharon Osborne 5th

Elana Kolman 5th

Morris Kolman 6th

Tracy Markus 17th

Peet Wessels 20th

Brooke Reilly 22nd

Rhys Jones 23rd

Tino Baiardo 27th

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AAA Report for September Reel Talk.

At the recent August meeting of the Association (which was also the Annual General Meeting),

individual Angler of the Year and Club awards were presented prior to the meeting.

Pat Shinnick (President) and Rick Cameron (Trophy Officer) and Diane McDonough (Secretary)

did a great job in preparing the presentation and the light supper, but the attendance of some of

the recipients was a little light on. Jim Strong, (Senior Patron) helped with the presentation and

made a short speech.

The State Estuary event is to be run from Troy Park, Melville, and fished in the Swan River on

28/29 November 2009. There should be another meeting of the AAA organising group prior to the

event and they would like to see some Surfcasters club members present.

The State Boating Championships are to be hosted by the Mandurah Offshore Fishing Club on

Saturday 27 March 2010, with Sunday 28 March as a backup date if the weather is not suitable on

the Saturday. Pat Shinnick chaired a meeting of the boating group this month at which the forward

planning was done and also the fisheries management issues.

No one has been forthcoming to run the State Dry Casting Championships which are usually held

on the last Sunday in October.

Chas Riegert gave notice of a motion from the floor, seconded by Ian Cook, to delete the Individual

Artificial Bait event out of the State Dry Casting event. In accordance with AAAWA procedures,

there will be discussion on this motion at the September Delegates meeting and voting at the

October Delegates meeting. Casters need to give this serious thought as the convention has been

that any rule changes for each of the competitions should be recommended to the Association by

the group representing that activity.

The election of officers was then held after Pat Shinnick read out a well prepared President‟s report

which shows the amount of work he has done for us all.

As in recent years, it was difficult to get anyone to nominate for a position in AAAWA. After a

considerable length of time and lack of volunteers, Pat agreed to take the chair for another year to

keep the Association afloat. George Holman became Senior Vice President and Peter Pekaar

Junior Vice President.

As there were no takers for Secretary or Treasurer, Diane McDonough was appointed again as

paid Secretary/Treasurer. Marcia Pekaar offered to take the position of Assistant Secretary. The

Trophy Officer portfolio was taken on by Don Cox and Competition Officer was taken by Jason

Pember. Recorder is Ian Cook.

Terry Fuller was re-elected as AAAWA‟s Recfishwest Board member with Pat Shinnick as proxy.

Pat thanked the people who put their hands up to keep the Association going, and looked forward

to promoting the Association and its activities. He would like to see Fishing Clinics run around July

2010 if we can get the support of enough workers to organise, promote and publicise these, not

just help on the nights.

George Holman.

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FIELD DAY VENUES 2009/2010

Calendar for Next Three Months

Here‟s a calendar showing the dates we will use for Dry Casting, General and Committee

Meetings, and Field Days in the next three months.

29 AAA Event

8 Dry Casting 11 General Meeting 14 15 Field Day 18 Committee Meeting

September 2009 October 2009 November 2009

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 30 1

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

DATE VENUE BOUNDARIES

26-28 September LWE Emu Springs As far as you can drive east or west along

the coast

10-11 October Rottnest Island Rottnest Island

14-15 November Cervantes 1km south of Cervantes jetty/100m north

of Hill River mouth

12-13 December Seabird/

Moore River

Seabird settlement/as far as you can walk

south of Moore River mouth

16-17 January Local Floreat drain close boundaries + BBQ or

pizzas

13-14 February Cervantes 1km south of Cervantes jetty/Jurien

Marina

27 February-1 March LWE Warren River Donnelly River/Windy Harbour

24-26 April LWE Bluff Creek As far as you can walk past Eastern

Rocks/Cheynes Beach

ALUMINIUM CANS

PLEASE BRING IN YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS TO NEXT GENERAL

MEETING AND PASS THEM ONTO MAL HEAD.

All profits go to the Surf Casting & Angling Club

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Recipe for „Baked Fish‟

Fish 4 Fish Fillets with skin on one side. Eg: snapper or blue-cod 1 Stalk Lemongrass 100 g Ginger 1 Red chilli optional 1 Lime zested & juiced

Stir Fry 1 teaspoon Sesame Oil or olive oil 2 Stalks spring onions 1 small red capsicum 2 bunches Bok choy or choy sum 1 daikon radish 1 punnet Baby Corn Mint Coriander Thai Basil

Sauce 1 teaspoon Oyster sauce 1 teaspoon Fish sauce 1 teaspoon Soy sauce Juice of 1 Lime 1 Garlic Clove finely chopped

Method Place fish in alfoil. Slice ginger, lemongrass, chilli up finely and scatter over fish with

lime juice and zest. Wrap in foil and place in a moderate over (180c) for approx 20 minutes. While fish

is baking you can make the stir fry. Stir fry: Heat wok over high flame. Add sesame oil and coat wok with it. Slice vegetables into thin strips, ensuring they are all of equal size and length. Add capsicum, celery, baby corn and diakon to the wok and toss until heated

through. Combine oyster, fish, soy sauce and garlic with lime juice and add to vegetables. Toss through and add asian greens and herbs at last minute. Toss and serve. Place stir fry vegetables in the centre of you plate. Lay fish across the top –

garnishing with fresh herbs and a wedge of lime. Serves 4

Editor‟s Notes

Well, I‟m still here and hoping that your Reel Talk magazine will be enjoyable and

informative while I am in charge of it!!! I found this recipe in Mum‟s hand written notes –

she has no idea where it came from! If anyone has some tasty fish recipes that they would

like to share, please email them to me and they will be fitted into the Reel Talk whenever

possible.

Bob Henderson sent an enjoyable tale about crabbing – I just wonder how many

„medicinal‟ sips were taken prior to the event!

Enjoy your magazine

Jennie Stoeckel

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